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Husband to wonderful wife, dad to excellent son. Avid reader, wannabe guitar god/surf dude. All views my own.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

"I grew up on a council estate" is not an excuse for failure. You are sacrificing the future of generations of kids on the altar of your class envy -reversing even Labour's academy reforms.

0% of teachers think you're doing a great job. I'm not here to give you a pat on the back.
I speak for those people whose lives you're destroying and I'll NEVER stop speaking up for them.

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

Dear @AndyBurnhamGM,

They weren’t “young women”.
They were CHILDREN.

Children who were raped, exploited, tortured, beaten, and murdered by gangs of Pakistani-Muslim men while powerful people like you turned a blind eye.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The strange thing about progress is that it only counts if you ignore where we started.

Every civilisation practised slavery.

The civilisation that ended it is now told it should feel guilty forever for having once participated. How does that make any sense?

[Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 @BellaWallerstei]

Let’s not forget one of Starmer’s legacies is the closing of over 105 historic private schools affecting more than 25,000 children. An act of vandalism driven by the politics of envy. These schools are never coming back.

[Camilla Tominey @CamillaTominey]

Complete and utter madness. Stop doing this to our children

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Surreal headline, amazing that this even needed to be done.

This was never a left vs right issue but a battle for common sense. And common sense won.

One of my proudest moments in politics was intervening to stop this rubbish.

Thank you @ForWomenScot for leading the way.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The Scottish government has finally been dragged, kicking and screaming, into compliance with the law.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Let’s hope @ShabanaMahmood calls for a General Election now.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

It genuinely amused me that people think replacing Starmer will make things better.

From Boris Johnson's election onwards, we've been shuffling the bollards on the Titanic.

You have to actually change direction if you want to avoid crashing into the iceberg:

- End Net Zero
- Make business viable again
- Get welfare under control
- Fund defence
- Ensure equality under the law
- Arrest criminals and keep them in jail
- Deport illegal immigrants and close the border
- Bring the civil service to heel

Burnham will become as unpopular as Starmer within months since he isn't going to do any of that.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

The country is not being governed and Labour say there won't be a Prime Minister till September.

Keir Starmer is off on a farewell tour and Andy Burnham wants a summer holiday. Neither is thinking about our national security.

We need to cut welfare and fund our military.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

There is a particular breed of politician who wants to send Britain back to the Dark Ages.

Ed Miliband, with his bans on tumble dryers and underfloor heating.

The Green Party councillors banning leaf-blowers in favour of rakes.

The Malthusian de-growthers like Thomas Piketty who argue that we should impose growth caps on developed countries because of climate change.

What they all have in common is a supreme indifference to the hardship their policies impose on the public.

Ed Miliband has been on a joyless spree of consumer intrusion since coming to power. His spray of Net Zero policies leaves virtually no part of ordinary life untouched.

The cost of electricity, food, housing, tumble dryers, boilers, fertiliser, towel rails and underfloor heating will all rise because of his unshakeable belief that he should decide what is best for you to buy.

These are all features of modernity that make lives better for billions around the world, but does that matter to Miliband? Not a jot.

He believes that Britons should be uniquely punished, forced to wear a hairshirt while our industry is destroyed and our beleaguered consumers piled with even higher costs.

Why? So he can jet around to climate conferences talking about his ‘climate leadership’ and arguing for others to do the same.

It’s not clear who he is going to convince first. President Xi? President Trump? Putin?

No world leader will be persuaded by his spit-flecked proselytising. “I made my country poor! We no longer have any industry and the cost of living is out of control! You should do the same!”

We must be honest that forcing hardship onto British consumers is not saving anyone. It is only acting as a deterrent to the rest of the world who hold Britain up as an example of exactly what not to do.

Under Kemi Badenoch’s and my leadership, we have renounced the mistakes of those who came before us. We would repeal the Climate Change Act and its dogmatic net zero targets in full.

That’s not to reject all clean tech as “stupid”, as some on the right do. There are many consumers who enjoy their heat pumps, home batteries and electric cars. But consumer choice should be king.

Businesses should compete to innovate until they produce what consumers actually want. The public will adopt new technologies when they decide they make their lives better.

And the salt in the wound for the climate zealots? Countries that have seen clean tech through the eyes of consumers, not those of climate bureaucrats, have generally had much higher rates of adoption.

It cannot be right that a few privileged bureaucrats can keep pushing higher costs on a worn-out public.

We have to embrace uncertainty. We have to recognise government’s role is to enable, not to dictate. Consumer choice must prevail.

[Benonwine @benonwine]

I think I speak for a lot of people when I say this.

For years, Sunday nights meant Top Gear. We’d sit down at 8pm and watch Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May do what they did best.

Now, through Clarkson’s Farm, Jeremy has introduced a whole new generation to the realities of British farming and earned the respect of millions all over again.

He’s made us laugh, he’s frustrated us, and he’s entertained us for decades.

Get well soon, Jezza.

The country is rooting for you. ❤️🇬🇧🙏

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

“I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

My brief take on @GBNEWS re Labour's 2-tier social media ban for u 16s. Somehow Starmer forgot to ban Bluesky. They're such numpties: so keen to contol how plebs communicate, they forget to control their own comms & make their biases blatantly obvious.
https://t.co/1Ib319yG8H

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Ed Miliband’s expensive mad dash to net zero has close to zero impact on climate change. So small as to be unmeasurable.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Simples:
Release tens of billions from Ed Miliband’s net zero follies for defence capital investment.
Release billions more for day-to-day spending by some tough love for the 10m of working age not working and living on benefits. Plus abandon triple lock.
Go through current defence spending like a dose of salts to root out current waste and inefficiency (which is mega). Cull legacy programmes for platforms soon to be obsolete.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

She couldn't have known. There were no signs. Nothing out of the ordinary happened right in front of her. What husband wouldn't shell out £4k for a pair of his wife's old shoes? Happens every day.
https://t.co/3qt8vP4q8G

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Whatever is going on in the world, Thomas Sowell always got there first and summed it up perfectly.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I wonder what sort of people make a decision like this

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

20 years ago, An Inconvenient Truth put climate change at the center of global debate, shaping politics, influencing leaders, and inspiring a generation of activists.

Two decades later, we can assess not just its impact, but its accuracy. Many of the film’s most alarming predictions did not materialize, while many of the policies it inspired have proven costly and ineffective.

The lesson? Panic is a poor guide for public policy. Focusing on innovation, adaptation, and economic development can do far more to help both people and the climate—at a fraction of the cost.

https://t.co/EIJyuNeFU1